The Return of Dr. Infrastructure

Creating jobs is often a form of economic malpractice.

By

Thomas G. Donlan

August 20, 2011

President Barack Obama apparently has read the polls that say Americans want the government to create jobs. Never mind all that deficit stuff. Never mind the national debt. Give jobs to the unemployed, better jobs to the underemployed and, say, how about a raise? So Obama went out on his new armored superbus to carry that message back to the people who sent it to him:

"All these folks who worked in the housing bubble, construction workers and contractors, they're ready to work," he said. "We could transform America...